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So, we've almost been in our new house a year now - and things are slowly getting done. Based on the advice of an electrician mate, we went with a btcino home automation system..... suppoedly its one of the btter ones around.... i think because he's used to comparing it to the (seemingly) universally panned…
Continue readingSo over the past year, i have purchased 2 new TV's... both samsungs based on reviews around the web etc. which generally seem to be pretty positive. Now the TV's themselves seem to be pretty good.... picture quality is nice, sound is crisp enough for TV speakers (although top volume is not very loud). One…
Continue readingEvery now and again - i do a quick search to see what new compression techniques are coming - as obviously any advances in this area have a large impact on many aspects of what we do... Came across this article - http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9230510/New_video_compression_tech_will_cut_bandwidth_use_in_half_Ericsson_says claiming a 50% reduction in bandwidth for streaming..... as per usual, the…
Continue readingSo have run into this intermittently while doing HP server builds over the past month, but havent really paid it the attention it deserves until today... - utilising the HP PSP 8.7. I have also found some other people now having this issue too - http://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2011/03/hp-network-interface-does-not-start/ Unfortunately, my builds are via SCCM - and if…
Continue readingLate last year, i pourchased a number of Dell servers for the Adexis environment... there were delivery hassles etc... but once everything turned up, i racked it and its been reasonably smooth sailing since then.... Couple of things i have found... 1) Dell's server management tools suck - and suck bad. Open Manage essentials and…
Continue readingA few weeks ago, my new phone arrived – the HTC Titan. I had stayed away from Windows Phone 7 simply because of the lack of tethering and iphone because I don’t like products that are successful because of marketing rather than technical superiority…. But when the titan got announced – I was interested in…
Continue readingI purchased a bunch of Seagate barracuda 7200.11 1.5TB drives a few years back when 1.5TB drives were the largest you could get. These drives always had issues - if you do a quick google on them, you'll find lots of entries complainign about their reliability and firmware issues.... I've basically had one die, on…
Continue readingWhen it comes to corporate hardware (server and workstations) we often get asked who do we recommend. From my point of iew, their all ok - HP/Dell/IBM/Lenovo/Acer - some people have a preference for the HP CMI tools or ILO, others dont mind DRAC and OCMI tools etc - all of them have their strong…
Continue readingSo its been a few months since i purchased and posted about the Thecus N7700 NAS box i purchased. After much hair pulling, ive effectively found the following: * Do not try and use AD integration on the NAS box.... while it works initially, it always stops working and completely stops all access to your…
Continue readingSo i just purchased myself a new hyper-V host. Gigabyte-X58A-UD7, 24GB DDR3 RAM, 2 x SATA3.0 (6bps) 600GB WD raptors Short story - the mavel SATA 3 controller on this motherboard is completely fucking useless. Add the drives to a RAID-1 set, one constantly just drops out. Try to use the two drives independantly, one…
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